Powerpoint Project on Waterpart 1as you have time in class (and outside of class) you will be responsible for working on this powerpoint. You will email the teacher an updated version of your powerpoint at each checkin point* (you will be expanding on this project throughout the term - look for updated versions of the assignment)
discuss Bolivia water wars research findings with classmates
identify areas for further research or clarification
finish research and generate your outline'
Today you will begin the video Erin Brockovich
prior to viewing, we will check out and discuss the following as a large group the story behind the movie
Finish Erin Brockovich
investigate famous water contamination issues in the United States and add your findings to your water powerpoint.
ex (you will find many others):
love canal
Housatonic River
Susquehanna River
Friday Fun Film
View the provided film (not so fun this week, but highlights the power of water) surviving the tsunami
while you work on any missing or late assignments
complete contamination research and turn in all work!
prepare for your Salon on Water issues. Review the provided prompts, research your position and be prepared to participate tomorrow
Salon - discuss your answers as a whole class. Will do a seminar instead of a fish bowl this time.
If you are not present and engaged, you will need to write out your responses and supporting statements for each question and submit them for review
Your task is to identify a water problem (quality, quantity, pollution); identify possible solutions; generate the action plan(s) people can take right now. Your PSA will be problem, solution, action.
Environmental Issues: Water
Background work:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/fresh-water-scarcity-an-introduction-to-the-problem-christiana-z-peppard
Reading on Water Cycle and FreshwaterFreshwater map* Highlight items of most importance and create a word document to store them
using water from a different part of the water cycle:
atacama fog catching nets
Water for Sanitation
Water Pollution & Contamination
Jigsaw today's reading assignments
JigSaw video clips
(you will be assigned 1 chapter per expert group)
Holy Crap! video
sustainable tech for h2o articles
create your own guiding question for the following video clips:
sourcing water video
digging for water video
walking for water video
National Geographic Special Edition: Freshwater articles and photos
View excerpts from video w/ cheryl's class and complete the worksheet provided
overview: water, Economics, trade
water as key to economic development
Water and Global Economics
privatization of water
- complete the pre-reading worksheet
-Jigsaw today's reading assignments
-explore Case Study: Bolivia as a starting point for research
The Nation's "The Politics of Water in Bolivia"
The New Yorker's "Letter from Bolivia: Leasing the Rain"
Frontline World's "Bolivia - Leasing the Rain"
identify areas for further research or clarification
finish research and generate your outline'
- view segments from the provided video clips
- read through provided links
- generate 4 "big idea" human impacts on water
- include supporting items
US and Global water issuesFlow
Poisoned Waters: Frontline (pbs 2009)
people and rivers
ReefEd human impact reading
USGS
World Savvy Monitor: Water
human impact on water:
Popcorn today's reading and answer the following questions:
- What is a feedback loop?
- how do humans directly disrupt the water cycle?
- How do humans indireclty disrupt the water cycle?
- What is the importance of Oceans?
view the video clips and complete the readings and questions on the three gorges damthree gorges dam: great wall across the yangtze
World Savvy Monitor: Water (three gorges dam case study)
Erin Brockovich
prior to viewing, we will check out and discuss the following as a large group
the story behind the movie
ex (you will find many others):
love canal
Housatonic River
Susquehanna River
View the provided film (not so fun this week, but highlights the power of water)
surviving the tsunami
while you work on any missing or late assignments
If you are not present and engaged, you will need to write out your responses and supporting statements for each question and submit them for review
view:
Kamilo Beach, Hawaii
Read:
Swirling Seas of Plastic Trash
discuss these questions as you read:
complete an article review:
View:
Poisoned Waters: Frontline (pbs 2009)(assigned sections)
Read:
hhs testimony
Endocrine disruptors
What impact does this have on humans?
improving water quality at school
sharing our knowledge with elem. students
http://online.wr.usgs.gov/calendar/2011/sep11.html
continue working on action project
New Yorker Article on Water
While you watch:
- identify the connections that are made between water and the quality of life.
- List the water problems that are addressed and the solutions that are proposed.
- Note any bias.
- Reflect on the impact this PSA had on you emotionally and scientifically.
Water changes everything (animated)Generosity Water (spokesperson)
Clean water for all (difficult to understand)
Give a Drop (testimonial)
Would You? (shocking)
Now create your own PSA regarding a water issue we have studied in class
Your task is to identify a water problem (quality, quantity, pollution); identify possible solutions; generate the action plan(s) people can take right now. Your PSA will be problem, solution, action.
examples of storyboarding (and additional links):
21st century learning: storyboards
checklist and rubric:
some storyboard design worksheets: